Best Yoga Teachers in Balaclava

Tzvia’s yoga journey spans over 15 years.
Having explored many styles, her teaching journey began in Mysore, India where she completed Hatha yoga training. Passionate about the freedom, peace of mind, joy and the health benefits that come from yoga Tzvia creativity guides students through the practice. A combination of intelligent sequencing, dynamic postures and breath work are the body of Tzvia’s awesome classes.

As a dedicated practitioner and a long history of committed service, Joey has been actively involved within the Melbourne yoga community since 2010. Along with extensive study, Joey brings to his classes a combination of yoga philosophy, mythology and a kick ass approach to the way you move your body. A typical class with Joey invites the individual to journey towards a devotional and disciplined approach for one to better understand and connect to the true purpose, the soul and the heart of the practice.
All while maintaining a playful and fluid approach.

Wallis has been practicing yoga since her teens. Yoga remains her constant for maintaining a healthy mind and body. Teaching since 2012 , Wallis gently and warmly guides students through their practice reinforcing the basics and the power of good form and alignment. Originally trained in the Barken Hot Yoga method. Wallis has undertaken several additional trainings. Including YIN (level 1&2) and more recently intensives on yoga practice for kids and teens.

Stephanie comes from a busy corporate background. When she stepped on her Yoga mat for the very first time she fell in love with the practice. Her dedicated commitment to her personal practice provides her with continually fresh insight to share and intuitively guide students from personal experience, inner wisdom and yoga philosophy that are of meaningful service to students. She did her Initial Vinyasa Teacher Training with Power Living and recently completed her Yin Yoga Training. “I love the physical challenge that Yoga Practice can bring on the mat as much as I love the calmness and heart touching aspect of Yoga"

Lauren is a student and teacher of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan . She first started practicing hatha yoga in her teens. After several career, life twists & turns the path of yoga never really left.

Lauren trained in Kundalini yoga under the Karam Kriya School, led by Shiv Charan Singh a longtime student of Yogi Bhajan’s. She continues to study with her teacher Jai Inder Kaur here in Melbourne. She has also studied Hatha Yoga (200) and Bhakti Vedanta Yogic science. She continues a regular hatha/vinyasa practice, most recently assisted on a 200 hour YTT and is studying a post graduate in counselling.

Irene Ais has spent 15 years exploring this ancient practice. She is a Physiotherapist, Yoga teacher, AcroYoga Guru and Pilates instructor. Irene will guide you to navigate the physical poses whilst offering an invitation to drop into the energetic practice. The layers she creates with her teaching draw students from the thinking mind to listening to their inner voice. Strong Flowing class sequences will challenge students to play to their edge. Irene’s extensive study in the human body and movement brings a teaching style focusing on finding your unique alignment and joy in movement.

Shelley first stepped on her yoga mat at the age of 15 and the practice has been a constant in her life ever since. Originally from the UK Shelley's teaching journey began in 2009 in studios across London. A traveller at heart, Shelley has spent her time since then teaching around Europe and Asia, gaining inspiration from many teachers such as Kino Macgregor, Sharon Gannon and Dana Flynn. She now feels lucky to call Melbourne home and is happy to be a part of it's yoga community.

Lisa has been joyfully dedicated to the path of yoga and meditation for over a decade. She first discovered yoga while studying law and instantly connected to a feeling of peace and calm she hadn’t felt before. These practices were invaluable during her studies and later years practising as a lawyer. Lisa took time out of her career to further train as a yoga and meditation teacher to share her passion with others. She spent two years living on the sacred island of Bali, deepening her studies, teaching yoga full time and leading retreats. Now resettled in Melbourne, Lisa combines her passion for teaching yoga and meditation as well as working in the field of mediation with families in conflict. Lisa has completed 400 hour RYT Teacher Training with Tara Judelle in the Anusara Method and a further 200 hour training with Cat Kabira in vinyasa, hatha and yin yoga. Primarily inspired by the transformative practices of Anusara and Embodied Flow, Lisa fuses strong, fluid movement with deep breath awareness to create a practice that celebrates and nourishes the body, mind and soul.

Casey first started practicing yoga many years ago to assist with her dance training, but soon discovered the magic of yoga all on its own! Always interested in health, wellbeing and spirituality, the transition to teaching yoga was natural. Casey has been teaching yoga full time in Melbourne for over 6 years, and with a combined 15 years of dance and yoga teaching, she is an expert in movement and flow. Casey is passionate about sharing her love of yoga with the community. You can expect dynamic movement and challenging sequences in her vinyasa classes, whilst her yin soothes the soul with elements of meditation and yoga nidra.

Hailey's yoga practice started in a hot Bikram studio. Like most students who feel that post-practice-buzz she quickly became curious. That curiosity as a student led her towards the vast ocean of Yoga where she continues to grow through ongoing education while sharing the knowledge. Originally, Power Living trained. Hailey has further completed trainings with; Cassie Lee and Duncan Peak through Power Living, Yin Yoga with Hugh Lee, Ashtanga YTT in India, 300YTT with Christina Gagnier and Marysia Do. "My aim is for students to feel awakened to their potential, connected to themselves and their surroundings as well as curious about that post-practice-buzz."

Yoga first came to Rachel almost 20 years ago while travelling through India but it was not until 2013 that she developed a consistent daily practice, at a time she was feeling a disconnect with her identity and sense of self. Yoga was like a coming home or an awakening. It helped her to shut out the noise of a fast-paced social media obsessed world. It taught her to quiet the mind, how to breathe fully and look deep within. Rachel sees Yoga as her life support – as a vehicle to shift energy, to strengthen and soften herself far beyond the physical. Her classes contain energetic flowing sequences with an emphasis on shifting prana, unravelling the ties that hold us back and connecting to one’s inner spirit. Rachel has completed 500 hours and is Yoga Alliance is 200 hours accreditation, as well as undertaking Reiki Level 1 and 2 training in India, and looks forwards to sharing with her students the essence of the ancient wisdom teachings combined with dynamic vinyasa krama.

Joe's Yoga journey has taken him to some pretty amazing places. Over the past 7 years his love of sports and exercise, surfing and crossfit led him to start a Yoga practice. Initially it was purely for the physical benefits,but very soon after it became obvious that this was a much deeper love. Joe went on his first yoga and surfing retreat to sriLanka and then a year later to The Practice in Bali with Octavio. "I was totally hooked"! Joe has since over 450 hrs of training and has been teaching as well as working as a carpenter full-time ,yoga has changed my mind set ,my belief systems and my life in so many amazing way.